Documents Officiels (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Documents OfficielsThe delegates from the peace societies of the United States to the Twelfth Universal Peace Congress held at Rouen, France, at the end of September, 1903, extended a cordial invitation to the Congress to meet in 1904 in the United States during the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This invitation, which was supported by more than fifty prominent men and women of the United States, who had gladly consented to the use of their names, was accepted as heartily as it was given.In order to commence the arrangements for the Congress, a meeting of representatives of the peace societies of the United States, and of interested individuals outside of the societies, was held in the New Willard Hotel, Washington, on the 13th of January, 1904, just after the close of the National Arbitration Conference. At this meeting an Executive Committee of twelve (whose names are given on page 3) was appointed to act, in conjunction with the Peace Bureau at Berne, as the Committee on Organization of the Congress. To this Committee all the details of the preparation for the Congress were referred. At the same meeting the fifty and more persons who had supported the invitation at Rouen were constituted a General Committee to promote the interests of the Congress and the Committee on Organization was empowered to increase the number of the General Committee at their discretion.The Committee on Organization met at the Arts Club in New York on the 13th of February, and chose Edwin D.Mead, Chairman, and Benjamin F. Trueblood, Secretary. After a full discussion of the place at which the Congress might most properly and successfully be held, Boston was unanimously chosen rather than St. Louis, which had also been proposed. The Chairman and Secretary of the Committee were thereupon appointed to act as a local Executive Committee with the full powers of the whole Committee on Organization.This Committee at once began active work, and during the summer issued frequent Peace Congress Bulletins and carried on a wide correspondence, both at home and abroad, in preparing for the Congress. The Mayor and citizens of Boston manifested from the first an active interest in the subject, and gave the Committee valuable aid in many ways. Generous response was made not only by the citizens of Boston, but also of New York, Philadelphia and other places, to the appeal for funds, and thus the Committee was enabled to lay the plans for the Congress on a broader and more generous scale than has been possible in the case of any previous congress.The preliminary meetings held before the opening of the Congress were most successful. Many of the churches of Boston and vicinity and of other cities throughout the country devoted at least one of their Sunday services October 2 to the subject of peace.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.